Akanksha Raja

By Phil42, 24 September, 2021
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Akanksha Raja is an arts writer from Singapore with a background in arts and cultural management. She grew up in Singapore and graduated from LASALLE College of the Arts in 2014, where she wrote a dissertation exploring the practice of forum theatre in Singapore. She has been writing reviews on theatre (and occasionally visual art) as part of the editorial team at ArtsEquator since its launch in 2016, and is an alumni of the Points of View Performance Writing workshop organised by the Asian Dramaturgs' Network in 2018. 

Akanksha writes about art primarily because she loves stories that just can’t be told any other way; she believes in its potential to connect, provoke and transform. She’s interested in exploring the affinities and tensions between art and art reviewing; a fluid and fun practice of critical writing that offers the possibility of creative and imaginative interplays with art; Criticism as an intelligent practice of open-mindedness, curiosity, love and understanding.

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